According to Jarkko Hietaniemi:
> The only clean way I see out of the locale mess is to replace them
> with a clean *Perl-specific* API ...
I'll do you one better:
We create Locales The Way They Should Have Been as a library with
complete bindings for at least C, C++, Perl, Java, and (your favorite
language here). I'm sure that some existing project has something we
could build. Perl can be the primary guinea pig.
Then comes the good part: We release the library. It becomes a de
facto standard throughout the software world. We thus eradicate the
horror of ANSI locales from the collective memory of the net.
"To dream the impossible dream...."
PS: It's been done once before, with time zones.
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